I was presented with the opportunity to talk and interview Risto Lähdesmäki, and hear his thoughts on building his company, Idean, seeing it grow, and eventually selling it. Here is a little something I learned from one of Finland’s very own! Risto Lähdesmäki founded Idean, a company specializing in user experience, in 1999. The Finnish-based […]

Meet Indu Subaiya, who has paved her way both as an entrepreneur, and as a filmmaker. She is also greatly known as a keynote speaker and a moderator, for example, at the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative. Wow — Welcome Indu! Indu is passionate about healthcare and enhancing people’s knowledge about health, which is why […]

Who’s in charge here? That question has been asked all over Slush Music this year. Who’s in charge of rights? Who’s in charge of data? Who’s in charge of the industry? While these conversations are going on, it’s been reiterated constantly that the Nordics are known for community and to dismantle the traditional hierarchical structure. […]

Scott Cohen, Founder of The Orchard, says he has people come up to him all the time, saying the same thing: “The music industry is broken, but I know how to fix it.” We’ve all heard this, at least the first part. Many people seem displeased with the state of the industry today. Cohen, on […]

On the Slush Music stage, three powerful women Linda Portnoff, CEO of Musiksverige and Founder of Riteband, Anya Trybala, Founder of Synth Babes and The Banshee Club Via Musikka, and Claudia Schwarz, VP at Music Tech Germany discussed the current state of women in the music industry. As phrases like: “I’d like to see more women […]

You’ll be hard-pressed to think of a Slush event where there were no Latvians. We’re close with the Finns – both geographically, and in terms of friendship. This year, we got organized. Expect to see, for the first time ever, a dedicated booth at the Startup Square highlighting both startup opportunities in Latvia as well […]

The first day has passed by with speed and oh boy what a kick off for the event we had at the Cable Factory! First Takomo with their drums and the lasers, the Slush Music founding team welcoming all people, and our lovely stage hosts taking care of the lighting up the audience. It was […]

And few other things he shared with us on Slush Music Day 1. Christopher Leacock, maybe better known as Jillionaire from Major Lazer, took over the James Brown Stage in Slush Music on Tuesday. This wasn’t the first time for Trinidadian DJ and music producer to visit us here in the North. “I’ve been in […]

The winner of this years Slush Music 20 Pitching competition; the recipient of $25,000 in Amazon Web Service Credits and €10,000 worth of legal services from Reed Smith, is Copenhagen-based WARM. WARM is short for World Airplay Radio Monitor. Their concept allows people to track and monitor songs on any radio channel in the world, […]

One hundred years ago, Henry Ford introduced the Ford Model T to middle-class Americans. The car revolutionized the whole transportation industry and became the symbol of modernization, freedom and prosperity for the growing middle classes. Currently, there is an ongoing mobility transformation, but it lacks a promise and symbolism. Mobility as the Driver of a […]

Music startup accelerators are a rare sight to behold. Among them, only one can say that almost 5% of global Series A financing go to their alumni companies. Techstars Music Accelerator boasts this honor and their Managing Director Bob Moczydlowsky, former head of Twitter Music is behind it all. Moczydlowsky stopped by Slush Music this […]

At Slush 2017, SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck will show that amongst the hottest trends and the fastest fads, your brand is only as good as your people, and when it comes to bringing out your company’s best, you are who you hire. Last year, around this time, an image of Slush tourism banner went viral on […]

Music tech incubators Amplify Sweden, TechStars Music Accelerator, Abbey Road Red, and The Venue Berlin took to the Slush Music stage to explain how music tech incubators are uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between creatives, tech and investing. Early on the James Brown stage, Amplify Sweden introduced themselves to Slush Music as Sweden’s first […]

Mounir Mahjoubi, the youngest member of Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet and the mastermind behind the online strategy that swept Macron to victory, is joining us at Slush. Mahjoubi’s triumphant prevention of the vicious cyberattacks directed towards Macron’s presidential campaign was celebrated worldwide: his successful strategy against the cyber warfare earned him the position as France’s junior […]

Dreaming about being an entrepreneur and a founder of a tech company one day, Vinod Khosla lived his childhood in an Indian army household, without any business or technology connections. Now, among other things, he’s the founder of Khosla Ventures. Founded in 2004, Khosla Ventures is a venture capital company, providing assistance and strategic advice […]

Slush is one of the biggest technical event productions in the Nordics. The technical production is spearheaded by Sun Effects, a collective of the most prominent festival producers and light designers hailing mainly from Finland. At Slush, form follows function and design with purpose at it’s core. Everything has a reason for existing whether it […]

Slush Music is starting on a loud, high note, and we aren’t just talking about the conference. Wrapping up the Donna Summer stage at the end of Day 1 will be John Acquaviva’s DJ set. The Canadian Italian superstar is getting up on stage before midnight, giving us an almost 2 hour set to help […]

Slush Music Songwriting Camp is organized for the second time in 2017. In collaboration with HMC Publishing, the publishing arm of Warner Music Finland, 21 songwriters are invited to make new music together. What would be a better time for this kind of camp than Slush Music and the grey November days? So who all […]

On Tuesday, Nov 28, in the evening, the Cable Factory is transformed into a nightlong festival, filled with live music and DJ gigs, and a premiere that is like the embodiment of Slush Music. The doors for the afterparty open at 9 pm and soon after, the party starts. The evening begins with Music Tech […]

“We nailed it!” This was our initial feeling after Slush 2016. No major mess-ups, largely positive feedback and the team jumping through the roof out of genuine excitement. However, after a couple days it was brought to our attention that some of our attendees had experienced harassment at the afterparty. Needless to say, by no […]

She is the CEO and Co-founder of Ellevest, Owner and Chair of Ellevate Network, former CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and a top-selling author. She is Sallie Krawcheck – one of our this year’s speakers at Slush 2017. Sallie took on the role of an entrepreneur when she co-founded Ellevest, a digital financial platform […]